The Harp of God eBook

[454]Thus the Lord is letting the light of truth shine
out, and by the truth is binding Satan, which means
the great adversary, the devil, and his various agencies
and influences in the earth. And this is further
evidence of the Lord’s presence. Truly Satan’s
house is divided against itself and cannot stand.
It is going to pieces. Jesus in his revelation
to St. John caused to be written these words:
“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having
the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in
his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that
old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound
him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that
he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand
years should be fulfilled; and after that he must
be loosed a little season,” (Revelation 20:1-3)
This is the time that Jesus foretold when the nations
shall be “as vessels of a potter, ... broken
to shivers”. (Revelation 2:27) Satan soon
shall be restrained and his empire completely and
forever destroyed. (Isaiah 34:1-4; 51:6) Thus shall
the Lord be revealed to the world, and they shall
know of his presence by the fiery time of trouble
which shall take vengeance upon the unrighteous systems
and things of the earth. (2 Thessalonians 1:7,8) This
is the day of God’s vengeance and his fire will
continue to burn until all parts of the Satanic order
are destroyed. The Prophet wrote concerning this
first work of the Messiah: “Thou shalt break
them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces
like a potter’s vessel”. —­Psalm
2: 9.

TO RECEIVE HIS BRIDE

[455]Jesus is likened unto a bridegroom, while the
church is likened unto a bride. (John 3:29; Revelation
21:9; 2 Corinthians 11:2) Many beautiful word pictures
or types appear in the Old Testament, which God caused
to be made for the purpose of teaching his great plan
to those who would search for the truth. One
of these pictures is that of Isaac and Rebekah.
Abraham the father of Isaac sent his servant Eliezer
into a distant land to find a wife for his son Isaac.
The servant took ten camels and went into Mesopotamia,
unto the city of Nahor. There he found Rebekah,
the daughter of Bethuel, a virgin very fair to look
upon. Eliezer “took a golden earring of
half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands
of ten shekels weight of gold”. Rebekah
agreed to accompany Eliezer to become the wife of
Isaac. “And Rebekah arose, and her damsels,
and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man
[Eliezer],” who brought her unto Isaac.
“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s,
tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife,”
after his mother Sarah’s death.—­See
Genesis 24.